Food carrying tray



1935. T. c. BELK ,mw

FOOD CARRYING TRAY Filed Feb. 27, 1934 5 sheets-Sheet 1 1 If, 1 rm i XX 1 y 7 Inventor J? d fie'l/' Aug, 2Q, W35. 1". c. BELK 2,@H,996

FOOD CARRYING TRAY Filed Feb. 2'7, 1934 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Inventor Aug. 20, 1935. T, c. BELK zmmw FOOD CARRYING TRAY Filed Feb. 27, 1934 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented 7 Aug. 20, 1935 UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE roon] CARRYING TRAY Trannie O. Belk, Camden, S. C. Application February 27, 1934, Serial No. 713,215

' 2 Claims. (01. 220-1) The tray is divided up into a plurality of comy The present invention relates to a tray designed for the use of sending meals from hospital kitchens to: patients, or from wholesale kitchens to rooms, also from lunch counters, tea rooms or other eating places to private'parties or special dinners.

The object of the invention resides in the provision of a carrier tray of this nature which is simple in its construction, compact and conven- Figure l is a perspective view of a trayem bodying the features of my invention. V

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view therethrough.

Figure 3 is a top plan View of the traywith the cover removed.

Figure 4 is a group elevation of the containers to be used in the tray. I

Figure 5 is a perspective view of one of th containers with the cover removed.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of another of the containers with the cover removed, and

Figure 7 is a perspective view showing fragmentary portions of partitions before assembly. Referring to the drawings in detail it will be seen that the letter T denotes generally the tray and, the letter C denotes generally the cover. The tray hasa square bottom 5 with side walls 6 rising therefrom. The cover Chas a top I with side walls 8 depending therefrom. The top I is square and of a slightlylarger area than the bottom 5 so that the side walls Binay telescope'over the side walls 6. The side walls 8 are aboutfour times the size and'height of the walls 6/ A pair. of spaced parallel coextensive rods 9 are fixed under the bottom by suitable means i0 and project outward beyond the sides thereof terminating in knobs H as clearly illustrated in Figures 1 and 3. Thebottom edges of two of the walls 8 rest on these rods when the cover is in closed position. The cover has swinging hooks E2 to engage over the projecting ends of the rod as illustrated to.

advantage in Figure 1. A pair of bails id have hook ends 55 to engage over the ends of the rod 9 and the two handles l6on the bails are adapted to'abut as shown in Figure 1 so that the tray may be easily and conveniently carried fro place to place. v

partments, This is accomplished-by means of removable partitions l1 arranged as shown in Figure 3 by way of'jexample. These partitions cross each other having slots I8 so that they may interfit having their upper and lower edges flush with one another. In the example of the use of partitions in Figure 3 it will be seen that I provide four square compartments denoted-by the letters A, a relatively elongated compartment B and a still longer compartment which is subdivided by removablepartitions l 9 into a plurality of relatively small square compartments D.

In these compartments D. may be placed bottles or round containers 20 and 2| as shown in Figure 4. Container 22 is adapted to be placed in compartment '13 while a plurality of the containers 23 are-placed in the compartment A although in one compartment a large thermos bottle may be carried as indicated in the large'circular" dotted line configuration of Figure 3.

These containers '23 may be partitioned as .de-

sired as indicated at 26. It will be noted that the containers are piled one above the other as shown in Figure 2 so that in each compartment A and. the compartment B there may be three containers or more depending upon the height of'the cover. To prevent the pile of containers from falling over on to the bottles or thelike in.

compartments D a wall 26 may be fastened to the partition between compartments D'and compartments A" and B as shown to advantage in walls telescoping over the side walls of the tray,

rods fixed across the bottom of the tray and projecting beyond the sides thereof so that the cover may rest thereon, and a pair of bails having hook ends engageable with the ends of the rods, and swinging hooks mounted on the cover to engage 7 over the ends of the rods.

2. In combination, a tray, a cover having side walls telescoping over the side walls of thetray, rods fixed across the bottom of the tray and projectingbeyond the sides thereof so that the cover may rest thereon, a pair .of bails having hook ends engageable with the ends of the rods, and

TRANNIE c. BELK. 

